The forum software behaves in a slightly different way to vBulletin (as found on several other forums) when entering a hyperlink.
If you select some text and click the Insert Hyperlink button
![](http://www.bavariayacht.info/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/url.gif)
it surrounds the selected text with the necessary tags, but does not insert the actual link. The tags look like this[url][/url]
Assuming you have the link on your clipboard, press cursor left once to position the cursor between the letters
url and the first ], type an "=" and paste the link.
The link will appear
like this and will open in a new browser window or tab by default.